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Originally Posted by LaraR4444
I don't mean to say that we can control suicidal tendencies, I went back and read my first post and realized that it does sound that way and that's terrible. My question is, are we always feeling that way because we feel a lack of control to something in our lives? Could thinking of it specifically that way help how we feel about we're dealing with?
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I do believe that suicidal thoughts can represent the feeling that we do not have control over some aspect of our lives. What comes to mind is the (apparently) successful, middle-aged man who is found to be embezzling money from the firm he works for. He believes he has suddenly lost control of his life, realizes that he is facing prison time, and he suicides.
I think the "embezzling man" case is much different than someone who is in a deep clinical depression and has thoughts of suicide, because I believe the second case is more of (or totally a) neurobiological illness. Yes, the severely depressed person feels out of control, but it's
the illness itself that causes the person to feel helpless and hopeless. Even though the person might tell someone that "this" or "that" life event (over which they lack control) has caused them to feel suicidal, the fact is their serious depression is lying to their mind, causing them to feel helpless.